Comedy preview: Milton Jones, London

A proper joke-writer with an ability to produce a consistent string of the finest one-liners mixing subtle incongruities with the crudest puns, Milton Jones has become a radio mainstay. He specialises in the kind of short, sharp gags that get copied into emails and attributed to Peter Kay (if it's you sending these out, please stop). On stage, Jones cuts a casually masterful figure. Like many quickfire comics, he has to deal with the problem of delivering an enormous amount of disparate material while still keeping the audience onside for the duration. Jones takes a flatly deadpan approach; he never milks his punchlines, tossing them away in total confidence that they'll deliver. He's happy to let his writing do the work of wringing out the laughter. With gags this strong, he can afford to.